Peter Camilleri
‘Chronicle of Drifting’ poetry collection strives for a vision of what it means to...
The collage work of Yuki Tanaka’s Chronicle of Drifting merits concerted study, despite the fact that its length, in page numbers, exceeds no more...
Sandra Lim’s poetry collection explores the tensions of love
Sandra Lim’s The Curious Thing is about an apperception of love and the tension one undergoes to discover the origins of a desire....
Sun Yung Shin’s fourth book authoritatively blends subtext, images, poetic license
Sun Yung Shin’s The Wet Hex, published in 2022 by Coffee House Press, is not an easy read. It was “dedicated to those cast...
Shangyang Fang’s modernist sensibility doesn’t read like a debut
Shangyang Fang’s debut Burying the Mountain is impressive. The relentlessly inquisitive spirit of Fang’s poetic consciousness is as comfortable with Beethoven and Being and...
This children’s book is a delightful glimpse into the Islamic world
Hena Khan’s Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns: A Muslim Book of Colors is as elegantly written as it is illustrated by Mehrdokht Amini.
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Truong Tran’s prose poetry displays a courage needed to respond to truth
In Book of the Other Truong Tran’s prose poetry conjures an overwhelming sense of a halt, a pause, a stop. It is about more...
Poetry collection takes us on a tour of human depravity and violence
Images of almost unnamable violence are given open procession in Michael Schmeltzer’s Empire of Surrender. Execution, bloody rubble, torturers, “fear like rotten milk”, “blood...
